{"id":3231,"date":"2015-05-17T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2015-05-17T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T19:07:20","slug":"lots-of-prep-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rv-7.dk\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"Lots of prep work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wau! Spent a whopping 7 hours in the shop today.. \ud83d\ude00
\nFirst thing to do, was finish preparing the centre cover.
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I countersunk for the nutplates that sits behind the cabin heat baffle..
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Then I deburred all corners, holes and edges. This took almost an hour..
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I dug out the aft fuselage top skins, so I could shoot these with primer along with the rest of the prepared parts. The needed a good clean-up after 3 years in storage, they were even a bit corroded, but it could be cleaned up with scotchbrite and white spirit.
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Then the aft fuselage top stringers got deburred and etched..
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I bought this mounting kit for my strobe light power supply some time ago, desided to prepare this as well.
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Fits nicely \ud83d\ude42
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Clecoed and matchdrilled in the aft fuselage..
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Finally a good collection ready for primer.
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I went to Air Service to prime the parts, but my old colleague\u00a0Frederik had\u00a0occupied the paint shop by a project of his,\u00a0so I postponed the priming session till tomorrow.
\nInstead I did some more work on my fuselage.
\nI have previously matchdrilled the aft top skins to the frames, but I\u00a0hadn’t deburred and dimpled the holes yet. Now I have.
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..a closeup:
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Also riveted on the aft bulkhead…
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And the\u00a0F-724 vertical baggage area ribs upper rivets
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Last thing I did today was rivet the canopy decks. Great day!!\"Fuselage<\/a><\/p>\n